News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Novels

The Seventh Function of Language A Novel Laurent Binet; Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by …

Kaveh.L. Afrasiabi, Shiraz Diaries & Jallad: A Novel on Contemporary Iran. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 20, 2016) Featuring two interconnected stories set in contemporary Iran, Shiraz Diaries & Jallad tells the story of a young girl’s growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran and her traumatic experiences during and after the Islamic Revolution. Jallad (executioner), on …

Richard Lee, Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’. The Guardian, 5 May 2017 The Frenchman’s novel about the blurred line between fiction and reality, The 7th Function of Language, is all the more poignant in the era of Trump, Le Pen and fake news. […] His latest novel, The …

Michael Joyce, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, Starcherone Books, 2015 Publisher’s site. Extract from the book on The Brooklyn Rail See also a book trailer narrated by the author at the end of this post. Michel Foucault famously wrote, “I am fully aware that I have never written anything other than fictions.” In …

Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls Ebook by Quiet Riot Girl Published: June 29, 2011 Category: Fiction » Literature » Erotica Entire book available online Short Description Imagine if the great, French, homosexual philosopher, Michel Foucault, had in fact had a daughter… This is the story of the girl who wasn’t there…